Journal Policies

Open Access Declaration

This journal offers readers Open Access to its content in favor of free and global exchange of knowledge. It is edited in Spanish in digital version (e-ISSN 2313-9137) . Print version: ISSN 2313-9129, closed (2012-2020).

Austral Comunicación is a non-profit project, we do not have any Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors.

The journal complies with the provisions of Law 26899 Argentina, on Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories.

Verification policies, similarities and plagiarism, and use of AI

The journal rejects all plagiarized articles. Texts are first checked upon reception, as members of the editorial committee complete an initial readthrough and verify prior publications bythe same author(s). In order to detect it, the Compilatio anti-plagiarism software is used.

The journal provides editors with practical pointers before they search articles for instances of plagiarism. 

During later stages, when correcting and editing for style, pieces are checked once again for plagiarism. If authors send a new version of an article they have already published elsewhere, they will have to mention this in the first footnote of their piece and justify their revision (for instance, their new version might include additional information or recuperate a valuable old article, or perhaps the original piece was written in another language not represented in the journal, among other potential reasons). 

Regarding the so-called self-plagiarism or recycled text, the journal will ensure that the content reused from a previous publication is in low proportion, since it is understood that a person who investigates a topic produces linked, incremental, progressive knowledge. In those cases, once the anonymous process has been passed, due proof of the previous publication will be left.
Publishers will weigh the degree of reuse with the guidance of peer reviewers.
Duplicate publications, with minimal changes or with the same results as a previous publication are not accepted.
The journal adheres to COPE's considerations in noting that artificial intelligence has diverse and powerful developments that go beyond generative artificial intelligence for assistance in text production and improvement, and that it currently encompasses all stages of the scientific communication process and concerns all participants in that process.
There are a number of ethical issues that concern participants, ranging from the use of AI for the preparation of the original (bibliographic search, suggestion of ideas, translations, data analysis, writing and improvement of the text, to name a few), to AI-assisted peer review, similarity checks, correction, editing and layout.
We seek to make the process as transparent as possible.
To this end, we ask authors to detail their use of AI in the Declaration of Authorship, Originality and Conflict of Interest.
In the review form, reviewers are also asked to indicate whether they have used AI for the task and to provide details.
At the proofreading and editing stage, the journal team states that it uses AI for linguistic verification, for titles, abstracts and keywords in other languages.

Self-archiving policy

Author's Accepted Manuscript (preprint)
Published article (Version of Record) (postprint)

It is requested that for the original (preprint) and accepted (postprint) manuscript, it be accompanied by a statement of the status of the original. For the published article, it is requested that the publication source be mentioned and the doi communicated.
Embargoes do not apply.